Abstract:
The automatic time-domain equalizer is modified to improve its signal-to-noise and impulse-response dispersal performance by supplementing the basic prior art equalizer with a final equalizer whose tap attenuators are controlled by correlations of the output of the basic equalizer with a distortion error signal. The reference input to the final equalizer is the appropriately delayed signal to be equalized. Two cascade equalization sections substantially eliminate from the final output the noise and echo components that are normally generated in the basic equalizer when used alone.
Abstract:
A system is disclosed in which an error signal used for adjusting tap weights in a time domain equalizer is integrated in an up-down counter over one-half of an interval. At the end of the first one-half of the interval, the count in the counter is decreased by a predetermined amount proportional to a minimum acceptable error level. The count in the counter is then reduced at a predetermined rate until the count in the counter is zero. During the time the count is being reduced at the predetermined rate, the sampling time of a signal applied to the equalizer is phase shifted in a direction determined by the difference between the integrated error in the present and preceding intervals.
Abstract:
In a transversal equalizer with tap multipliers whose settings are automatically controlled by the mean-square error difference between a predetermined transmitted work pattern and a receivergenerated identical pattern, an improvement in startup performance in the presence of high-level distortion is achieved by making incremental phase changes in the receiver timing on each failure of comparison between the two patterns. Further improvement is effected by resetting all tap multipliers, except a reference multiplier, to the zero condition when such comparison failures persist. Upon repeated failure for a predetermined number of occurrences the state of the receiver word generator is altered to conform to the most recently received segment of the transmitted work pattern thus attaining timing synchronization and initial equalizer adjustment simultaneously.
Abstract:
The automatic transversal filter equalizer is modified for improved startup performance in the presence of high initial distortion by providing control signals for adaptive adjustment of tap multipliers from correlations of the polarity of unequalized received data samples, rather than the polarity of data samples in the equalizer output, with the polarity of an error component in the equalizer output.